Single portrait of Jan van der Linden

General information
Original location Antwerpen, convent of the Alexian friars
Current location Belgium, Boechout, Friars Alexians, inv. no. B/S 10
Artist Cornelis de Vos? (based on style)
Date After 1633
Material Oil on canvas
Dimensions 98 x 84 cm
Visual elements
Short description Portrayed half-length, turned left, facing the viewer. Standing in front of a brown background, pointing towards a small architectural model (cut away) with his right hand.
Depicted pilgrim
Personal information
Name Jan van der Linden (based on archival documents, similarity with other known portraits)
Social status / profession Alexian friar; prior of the Alexian convent in Antwerp; Alexian provincial of Brabant (1622-1632); Knight of Jerusalem; plague master (pestmeester) of Antwerp (1632)
Other known portraits Peter Paul Rubens (workshop or copy?), Single portrait of Jan vander Linden (Belgium, private collection)
The Congregation of the Alexians in Antwerp, 1621? (Boechout, Friars Alexians)
Pilgrimages
Year of pilgrimage to Jerusalem 20 March 1633 - 25 November 1633
Attributes Jerusalem pilgrimage Palm in handle decorated with a golden Jerusalem cross in left hand; Necklace with golden Jerusalem cross; Model of the tomb of St Mary (see remarks)
Travel report Jan vander Linden, Heerlycke ende gheluckighe reyse naer het H. Landt ende de stadt van Jerusalem, beschreven ende bereyst door broeder Jan vander Linden, pater van de Celle-broeders tot Antwerpen in het jaer ons Heere 1633 tot stichtinge ende recreatie vande jonckheyt die geerne wat nieuws lesen (Antwerp 1634). According to this report, he travelled with Jacob Pussenius, the father confessor of his convent, over Paris to Genoa, where they boarded a ship to the Holy Land. Here they visited the holy places in and around Jerusalem.
Death
Date of death 26 February 1638
Location of grave Antwerp, Convent of the Alexians
Additional information
General remarks The architectural model is hard to see since it has probably been cut off later. However, it might be a model of the Tomb of St Mary on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem as Vander Linden may have seen it, for, as far as can be seen, it shows remarkable similarities with depictions of this tomb in Vander Linden's travel report.
Literature
  • Smeyers, Maurits, Werken van barmhartigheid. 650 jaar Alexianen in de Zuidelijke Nederlanden (Leuven 1985), pp. 290-292
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